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Nobody cares about ‘diversity’ at black universities

… while former white universities are under constant scrutiny…

Picture: Democracy South African style. Students at the University of the Free State voted for their student-council with security guards watching their every move. This flies in the face of the country’s Constitution, which states that voting must be in secret to ‘assure fair and equal elections’. Due to this scrutinised voting system, many students spoiled their votes in protest. Even so, the FF-Plus representatives gained 8 of the 18 seats as opposed to the ANC's (SASCO) 9 seats. The DA could only gain one seat. More than 65% of the students at this university already “voluntarily choose “ English-language tutoring instead of Afrikaans, due to this suppressive scrutiny. That’s how Afrikaners are losing all their language rights at public educational institutions. The author of this article says this kind of scrutiny does not exist at “black” universities at all…Photograph by Freedom Front Plus.

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August 27, 2009 – by Rhoda Kadalie, writing in Business Day.

“No one cares about issues of diversity facing black universities. No one cares what happens there and whether or not the throughput rates are increasing, whether or not targets are being met to produce qualified and competent doctors, engineers, scientists, nurses, and the other urgent skills required by our economy.

“No one asks whether or not the racial balance at the black universities has been met, or whether or not numeracy or academic levels have improved. “Why is this debate not in the public realm?

Jan van Niekerk, Provincial Youth Leader of the FF Plus in the Free State, expressed his concern about the university’s student council election.

"Unacceptable complaints, such as the intimidation by agents, security guards and SASCO members who pointed out to students where to cast their vote for SASCO, nearly all voting booths opening more than an hour late and student numbers which were purposefully written incorrectly by agents, were taken note of."

“The FF PLus will urgently be giving consideration to possible further steps,” Van Niekerk said. It would be irresponsible of any party to allow mistakes of this nature to go unnoticed, while students’ democratic rights are being curtailed. he concluded. http://www.vf.co.za

The term "genocide" was coined by legal scholar Raphael Lemkin in 1943, writing:

'Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actionsaiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.

The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of personal security, liberty, health, dignity and lives of the members of such groups... '